2026 TSC Chair Election

2026 TSC Chair Election

2026 TSC Chair Election Nominations

Nomination period closes Apr 10, 2026

Elections | Nephio Technical Community Document

Nomination Period: Open 2026-03-27 | Close 2026-04-10 (11:59 pm Pacific Time)

Verification Period: 2026-04-13 (1 business day)

Election Period (if multiple nominees): Open 2026-04-14 | Close 2026-04-17 (11:59 pm Pacific Time, 4 business days)

Eligibility

Per the Elections page:

  • All current TSC Members are eligible to run for TSC Chair.

  • All current TSC Members are eligible to vote in the TSC Chair election.

  • There are no limits on the number of terms a TSC Chair may serve.

  • Candidates must self-nominate.

How to Nominate

Edit this page and add your nomination below using the template. Provide:

  • Name (use @ mention)

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  • Candidate's Statement explaining why the community should vote for you

Name: @Ciaran Johnston (Ericsson)

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  • Organization: Ericsson

  • Short biography: Senior expert in OSS and programmable network architecture, with 25+ years experience in telecoms software development and 7 years experience in open source.

  • Intent: continue to progress Nephio as an industry-leading reference implementation of a declarative automation framework for infrastructure and NF deployment automation at scale, leveraging the best in class capabilities from the open source cloud native ecosystem and collaborating across the industry to develop open source reference points for standardization.


Name: @Timo Perala (Nokia)

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  • Organization: Nokia

  • Short biography: Head of open source network and service automation, with 30+ experience in telecom industry, of which couple of deacades in standardisation and industry collaboration, past decade in open source.

  • Intent: I aim to help Nephio to become successful in the industry and to accelerate its adoption. To this end, I’m looking forward to making it easier for new people to get involved in the Nephio community especially through improved documentation. Further, my intention is to continue to help fostering fruitful industry collaboration between Nephio and other relevant open source communities and standards organisations. I’m primarily interested in the TSC vice chair position.


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